Integrating TB in HIV/AIDS Workplace Programme

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PSI Connect Inaugurated it's TB Workplace Intervention Program

On World TB Day

On the occasion of World TB Day, PSI Connect inaugurated its

Tuberculosis Workplace Intervention Programme at Texport Industries

at Bangalore. Texport Industries formally adopted an HIV/AIDS & TB

Workplace Policy at the function. Prominent sports personality and

Arjuna award winner Ms. Nisha Millet was present as the chief guest

along with the representatives from the Revised National Tuberculosis

Control Programme (RNTCP).

PSI through an USAID & PEPFAR supported project Connect has been

implementing HIV/AIDS Workplace Intervention Programmes in 57 public

and private sector companies in Karnataka and Coastal Andhra Pradesh

since June 2007.

Connect has now integrated TB within the existing intervention

programe in collaboration with Revised National Tuberculosis Control

Programme. Appropriate training modules are created and the

implementation has already begun with the existing companies.

For further details please contact-

Shailesh Vaite

svaite@...